Jehovah
I’m going to go against the grain on this one. Sorry.
For large aircraft I’m not sure it makes the slightest difference what colour it is unless it plans to operate in the LL environment and even then I would take some convincing it matters that much.
In these days of high fidelity radars, live satellite uplinks, targeting pods, HMCSs etc the colour of the paint isn’t going to matter at all when anyone who wishes to do you harm can either see you anyway (think large aircraft on approach and a guy with a MANPADs) or will have a targeting system that doesn’t care what colour your aircraft is.
In fact, couldn’t we actually make a better argument nowadays for high visibility paint schemes for all of our aircraft to aid with visual acquisition for safety purposes?
If an aircraft is on the ground does the colour of the paint really make it less easy to see? I mean really? Whatever colour you paint it there is no secret about the fact it is going to be parked on an airfield.
Have I just set the cat amongst the pigeons?!
BV